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Smith, Alexander

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Smith, Alexander (?1830–67), published in 1853 Poems (including ‘A life-drama’), which were satirized, along with other works of the Spasmodic School, in Aytoun's Firmilian. He published in 1855 sonnets on the Crimean war jointly with S. T. Dobell; and City Poems in 1857. His best prose is to be seen in A Summer in Skye (1865).

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